Bob Ralston 22 All Time Favorites - Hammond Organ , Versatone Footnote

[Wurlitzer2ify]

Hammond preferred their organs be called electric not electronic since they were mechanical for the most part, and didn't use tubes in the generators such as the other brand of organs.

[paulj0557]

@Wurlitzer2ify Laurens was a purist. The tone that was generated was pure voltage, albeit small. When I was a teenager I'd go to super loud rock concerts and stand there thinking, '' That little hair fine wire is carrying the signals of those guitar strings and that singers voice''. This is why amplification design is probably the most important step in the chain of electromechanical instruments like electric guitars and Hammond organs, and Wurlitzer ES organs. All 3 sound better w/ TUBE current

[patsaxon]

This must had been long before went to playing on a Thomas organ. I am not crazy about the old Hammond tone wheel organ, unless it is the Hammond X-77 organ.

[paulj0557]

@patsaxon I'm going to post a record of Jesse Crawford playing a Hammond tone wheel organ. That guy was a total genius. First of all he mastered the real Wurlitzer pipe organ, then as a supporter of Hammond TW organs he went on to write instruction literature for the Hammond. So many great Hammond TWs. Versatone Footnote - "The Versatone Footnote was a string bass unit similar to the Krueger unit. It added its tone to 20 of the pedals and sent its signal to one of the lower manual drawbars".

[paulj0557]

@patsaxon I didn't know until I looked it up that the X-66 was introduced in 67' and the X-77 came out 2-3 years later. The X-66 cost twice as much as the X-77. Look this up on Google> 'scribd Hammond Organ Models'

it has all the Hammond models and how much they cost and other stats all the way up to 1970. It was put out for the technicians.I'm with you on this Pat, I too would rather have a tone wheel organ with other voices too. So why would you rather have an X-77 than an X-66? I like 66